Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano acted in a drama that some critics say inappropriately uses the Holocaust to advance a conservative agenda.
spread false claims about the 2020 election and led efforts to try to overturn President Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania., 2021, but did not enter the U.S. Capitol.Moran said he did not know Mastriano before casting him in 2018 as an operative with the Office of Strategic Services, the U.S. intelligence agency during World War II.
during the rescue, before fatally shooting several soldiers. Mastriano later puts a chokehold on the Nazi played by his son, wearing a swastika armband, and lowers him to the ground. “When you wake up Fritz, tell Hitler he’s next,” he says.At the end of the movie, the man who told Miriam’s story at the school board meeting reveals that she is his sister. He then delivers an impassioned speech about resisting the evils of big government, gun control and abortion.
Anne Berg, an assistant history professor at the University of Pennsylvania who teaches about Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, called the film an “outrage” because, she said, it manipulates the Holocaust to advance a right-wing agenda. In one scene, the Nazis who invade Miriam’s home confiscate a gun that her father had been hiding. “Only predators want our guns,” her father says before he is fatally shot in the head.
Moran said he did the best he could with a limited budget, shooting in his home state of South Carolina. Miriam was played by Ashleigh Burnette, who was 17 when the movie was filmed. She was raised Jewish in an overwhelmingly Christian town in north Georgia and said she was excited to participate in a movie about the Holocaust. But she said that she was surprised most people involved in the movie were Christian and that she felt uncomfortable when Christian prayers were said before meals on set.
Moran said he was counting on Ashleigh and Lana Burnette to offer guidance on Jewish traditions. “If there was an authenticity problem, I would look at them,” he said, adding that he was consumed with the logistical challenges of moviemaking. “I had a lot of other stuff going on.”
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